Re: emacs C++ auto code completion problem

[Richard Riley]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> Hi, Richard!
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 05:55:18PM +0200, Richard Riley wrote:
>> GMS S <gmspro@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Did you read
>> http://xtalk.msk.su/~ott/en/writings/emacs-devenv/EmacsCedet.html ?
>
>> Specifically
>
>> ,----
>> | (defun my-c-mode-cedet-hook ()
>> |  (local-set-key "." 'semantic-complete-self-insert)
>> |  (local-set-key ">" 'semantic-complete-self-insert)) <=========
>> | (add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook 'my-c-mode-cedet-hook)
>> `----
>
> Please don't do this!  In some CC Modes (C++ Mode, Java Mode, ...), ">"
> is bound to `c-electric-lt-gt', which deals with all sorts of nasty

I didn't. Please see the link above!

> things that happen when ">" is a template bracket, or might be one.
> (Don't blame me for the stupidity/malice of the idiots who thought that
> the greater-than sign was so pretty it could be abused as a parenthesis,
> leading to syntactically unparseable code.)
>
> Please be careful when rebinding "ordinary" keys.  Particularly in CC
> Mode, quite a lot of ordinary looking keys are actually "electric"
> keys.

>
>> I used company-mode as it has far better search and context help for
>> completion candidates. To use the semantic functions simply comment out
>> the "(company-mode 1") in the my-cedet-hook in the code below.
>
>> My own set up is here:
>
>> http://richardriley.net/projects/emacs/dotprogramming#sec-1.1
>
> Hmm.  You have an illicit '(local-set-key "\C-c\C-r" ...' in that file.
> C-c C-<letter> belongs to the major mode.  You _probably_ meant to use
> C-c r.  :-)

Possibly :-;

>
>> But borrowed heavily from Alex Ott's excellent article (I struggle
>> with the CEDET docs as they cover an awful lot of things I haven't a
>> clue about!).
>
>> Company mode:
>
>> http://nschum.de/src/emacs/company-mode/

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